The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-26

HE MAKES A FAREWELL SPEECH
AT ISLINGTON.

O@AASAA @'ANeSAAo OStesi ebOACAA'
LONDON, Oct 25.-The Foreign Office has
issued a circular announcing that Mr..
Chamberlain will depart for Washington
early in November, and will be accompa
MED by Mr.. Bergne, superintendent of the
Treasury Department, and Mr.. Maycock,
another attache of the Foreign Office
A meeting was held at Islington to-day in
honor of Joseph Chamberlain. Resolutions
We're adopted expressing satisfaction at his
appointment to the Fisheries Commission,
and trusting that he would be successful in
his announced intention to promote har-
mony and good will between the
United States and England Mr..
Chamberlain replied that he appre-
ciated this reference to the honorable and
important mission upon which he would
embark in the course of a few days. He
was well aware that the task was full of
difficulty The question was a complicated
one, and it involved enormous interests.
[Cries of Hear hearr1 On several occa-
slons during the present century 1t had gone
far toward endangering the amicable rela-
tions existing between the two great branches
of the Anglo-Sa$on races, whose cordial
amity must be the earnest desire of every
j
Unfortunately the difficulties in his way
were not those inherent in the case or
directly involved in the issue 70 be decided
IRIsH-AMERIcAN OPPOSITION.
They had all seen a telegram stating that
lrish-Americans would do all in their power
to mar his mission, and would be able to
prevent its success The sources of the
statement might be tainted, yet it repre-
sented the undoubted fact that rish-Ameri-
cans were ready to use every effort to pre-
vent a settlement. There had never been
time during the last thirty years when the
Irish in America had not been willing to use
the privileges conceded to them by their
adopted country, in order to SOW dissension
and promote ill-feeling between Great
Britain and America. [Hear, hear.] More
than once they had shown their readiness to
jeopardize the best interests of their
adopted country in order to
avenge real or fancied injuries.
He was not sanguine enough to anticipate
that on the present occasion they would
change their policy, but he was encouraged
by the belief that vast majority of native
Americans [cheers1 and every Englishman
and Scotchman in the United Kingdom
would regard the fratricidal conflict be-
tween the two countries as a crime of the
deepest dye. They were earnestly desirous
of an amicable and honorable settlement,
and would not allow it to be jeopardized by
party rancor or personal feelings. Hear,
hear.]
CANADIAN COMMERCIAL UNION.
This would be his last speech before leav-
ing for America, Mr. Chamberlain declared,
so he would refer to another telegram stat
ing that the Toronto Globe had comments
upon some werds in one of his speeches in
Ulster, construng them into an insult to all
Canadians Tbpra OrFpaf lICa r111rpb hon
sion of his meaning. What he had said was
that there was party in Canada seeking a
commercial union with the United States,
which would practically mean free trade be-
tween Canada and the United States. While
at the same time Canada was to continue
to impose protective duties on inn
ports from the mother country, Canada was
to give preference to every article of manu-
facture from the United States over manu-
factures from Great Britain. He had said that
the people Of C2uada desired an arrange
ment by force, but he had remarked that in
that case all the advantage of the slender
tie, which still bound Canada to England
would disappear as far as England was con-
cerned, as it was not likely that the people
of Great Britain would continue much
longer to sustain obligations, and respon-
sibilities of relationship, all the recipro-
cal benefits of which had been withdrawn.
WOOLD MEAN SEfAhAI1ON.
So he had said that a commercial union
of this kind, if it ever came about, would be
the first step toward signal and practical
separation. That was matter of fact. He
could not conceive how any human beng
with grain of reason could deem that
there was anything insulting in this state
ment Hear, hear.l He was not sorry for
the occasion to make this reference. What
a vivid light it threw upon the general
question of Ireland? Mr. Gladstone had
again and again quoted Canada as an illus
tration of how England might maintain
imperial control over matters of
imperial interest, while allowing en-
tire independence in all domestic
business. The Toronto Globe, in the same
article had said that Canada had reached a
stage of development where her choice must
prevail over all considerations. That meant
that Canada had the right (and he would
not dispute it whenever her interests de-
manded it, to follow her own interests with
out reference to the views of the mother
country, although the subject :of disagree
ment might be among those expressly with
drawn from her cognizance by the constitu-
ton.
APPLYING 1T TO IRELAND.
Let that be applied to Ireland If ever
Ireland obtained a practically Independent
Parliament, separation would be at the dis
cretion of that Parliament The Gladston-
ians might not intend to bring about separa-
tion, but they were blind to the result which
must inevitably follow the adoption of this
policy [Cheersl They failed to see what
the example of Canada clearly showed,
that if their policy were adopted England
would have to give up all control
over the Union and hand it
over to Mr. Parnell or TO some
successor who might be less moderate in
his views and more hostile to British con-
nection than Mr.. Parnell Crit;cising Mr.
Gladstone's speeches at Nottingham he said
they gave evidence that it was hopeless to
attempt to reconcile the opposing factions
of the Liberal party. He claimed that every
item of Mr.. Gladstone's programme had
been borrowed from his own authorized
programme, every measure of which had
been delayed and defeated by Mr.. Glad
stones policy.
THE GHOSTS OF LIBERAL MEASURES.
1t is not his programme, he declared 1t
is a phantasmagoria. They are the ghosts
of the Liberal measures slain by his action.
He raises them by incantation only to lay
them again when they have served his
purpose and stimulated the fanaticism of
his devotees. Laughter and cheers While
this programme of the future is clearly de-
fined the policy which he himself under
takes is kept in the shadow, or In total
darkness, only the barest line being dis
ceInible to the lSeenest sight. When we ask